2017's sixth grade play at the school where my husband was teaching at the time was really production of two plays he had written. Camp Fear is about a group of kids at a summer camp who discover a ghost in a shipwreck that they find nearby. A Full Team is about a soccer team at a small school that doesn't have enough players for a team, so they find they have to recruit new players from unlikely sources, like the chess club. The storyline of Camp Fear immediately brought to mind Scooby Doo, so I designed the poster to have the look of a Scooby Doo comic book cover. To create one unified image, I cast the kids from the soccer team in A Full Team as the campers in Camp Fear. Unfortunately, there was no dog sidekick. I think the creature in the tent may have gotten him.
This pencil sketch became the basis of the art in the poster. The color was added in Photoshop, with the sketch as the top layer set on multiply. I like doing this, because then the art can maintain the looseness of the sketch.
In the play, A Full Team, the actors all needed T-shirts with the soccer team's logo on it. This is what I came up with. The sketch was used as a template in Illustrator, which I used to create the logo. The logo was printed out on iron-on decals, and were then heat-transferred to T-shirts. The logo makes it onto the shirts of the kids in the poster. I changed the design for the girl in the pink tights, because she is the girl from the swim team who was recruited to play on the soccer, so her shirt reflects that.
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